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usually riding on Zwift or up steep hills...
- Location
- Staffordshire
Inevitable, really, they’ve got to keep making incentives for people to buy and then upgrade these bikes…
Randyberlin
Guru
- Location
- Sitka, Alaska
alex_cycles
Guru
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Garmin just bought TrainingPeaks
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsro...-training-platforms-for-athletes-and-coaches/
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsro...-training-platforms-for-athletes-and-coaches/
Will be interesting to see what they do with it.
alex_cycles
Guru
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Interesting commentary here https://the5krunner.com/2026/07/22/garmin-acquires-trainingpeaks-what-changes/
Big picture suggestion is total dominance in the activity data sphere, which makes sense. But the whole "using the training data for improving AI systems" is also a compelling argument.
What happens to TPV remains to be seen, but George Gilbert seems to think things are going to go forward quickly.
Anyone else having drop outs on the Paris races? Twice now (out of 2) I've lost connection to the bike/HRM at exactly the same point on the course. The down section after the Arc ... twice I've been in a group doing 45+ kph, then suddenly no connection, avatar stops, and I have to reconnect everything. By then I'm 25 seconds down and growing.
Both ZRS races so it's tanked my score, so I shouldn't complain lol ...
I seem to recall having the same issue a couple of years ago on Paris, always the exact same place on the course, but only in races. I ride the route as a free ride and it never drops out.
Means I can't race Paris which is a shame as it's a great course (apart from the hill, I'm not keen on that haha)
Both ZRS races so it's tanked my score, so I shouldn't complain lol ...
I seem to recall having the same issue a couple of years ago on Paris, always the exact same place on the course, but only in races. I ride the route as a free ride and it never drops out.
Means I can't race Paris which is a shame as it's a great course (apart from the hill, I'm not keen on that haha)
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** ZRS Trigger warning ** 
Joined a C race today as the D pen (as per ZRS) only had 2 riders and I didn't see the point of riding with just 2 others. It was a Tick Tock 2 lap race so I figured I might be able to hold on, at least to the climb out the desert, so C may not totally kill me!
Anyway, turns out it was an all cats start together race, so in hindsight I could have stayed in D and still had others around me.
I was dropped early, found 2 wheels to sit on and lapped with one of them (he was a C, the other rider, a B, dropped off us, I guess trying to tank his ZRS score).
2nd lap I was dropped at the banner and solo'd the whole lap with a group of 5 or 6 about a minute behind who I held off.
But here's the silly part. In that group behind me was the 'winner' of the D pen (plus some C's and the B we'd dropped). This D guy came in a minute behind me, yet his ZRS went up by 10 points because he won his race (against one other rider) whilst my ZRS remained the same as I came in 15th in C cat.
After all this time with ZRS it's still a total sh*t-show. Still far too many riders in the wrong cat, strange ZRS points changes. Too much gaming the system, much worse than the old cat set up.
Joined a C race today as the D pen (as per ZRS) only had 2 riders and I didn't see the point of riding with just 2 others. It was a Tick Tock 2 lap race so I figured I might be able to hold on, at least to the climb out the desert, so C may not totally kill me!
Anyway, turns out it was an all cats start together race, so in hindsight I could have stayed in D and still had others around me.
I was dropped early, found 2 wheels to sit on and lapped with one of them (he was a C, the other rider, a B, dropped off us, I guess trying to tank his ZRS score).
2nd lap I was dropped at the banner and solo'd the whole lap with a group of 5 or 6 about a minute behind who I held off.
But here's the silly part. In that group behind me was the 'winner' of the D pen (plus some C's and the B we'd dropped). This D guy came in a minute behind me, yet his ZRS went up by 10 points because he won his race (against one other rider) whilst my ZRS remained the same as I came in 15th in C cat.
After all this time with ZRS it's still a total sh*t-show. Still far too many riders in the wrong cat, strange ZRS points changes. Too much gaming the system, much worse than the old cat set up.
